The gods killed a man for their victim. But from him thus killed, the part which was fit for a sacrifice went out and entered a horse. Thence the horse became an animal fit for being sacrificed. The gods then killed the horse, but the part of it fit for being sacrified went out of it and entered an ox. The gods then killed the ox, but the part of it fit for being sacrificed went out of it and entered a sheep. Thence it entered a goat. The sacrificial part remained for the longest time in the goat; thence, it became pre-eminently fit for being sacrificed! WOMAN’S LIFE IN INDIA. Every one of the heathen religions more or less degrades woman. Often she is made the slave of man, or, worse still, the creature to minister to his appetites. Only Christianity seeks to lift woman to the level of man. Women in Christian lands rarely ever appreciate the low condition of their Oriental sisters. In India, woman’s condition is worse than in China, and in China worse than in Japan. In the early religious writings of the Hindus, woman is spoken of with respect; but in later days those teachings have been all but forgotten. Indeed, the degradation of woman in India--not merely sanctioned, but commanded, by the Hindu religion--is without a parallel in any age and among any other race. According to the Code of Manu, the law-book of the Hindu religion, woman is forbidden to read the sacred books or to offer up prayers or sacrifices in her own name and person. She may pray and worship, but only as her father or husband directs. Woman is regarded as _having no soul_, differing from the beasts only in being more intelligent than they. Moreover, she is commanded _to revere her husband as a god_. [Illustration: TEACHING A CHILD TO WORSHIP GANESHA, THE GOD OF WISDOM.] [Illustration: A CHILD BRINGING AN OFFERING TO THE IDOL OF A BULL.] If a Brahmin, or priest, happens to be reading the Vedas (the sacred Hindu books), and a woman happens to come near, he must suspend his reading until she pass by.